This anthology celebrates 25 years of Girls Write Now by offering a hands-on guide to collaborative storytelling, crafted by its young writers. It explores three themes: Creation, Combination, and Transformation, providing aspiring writers with essential tips, insights, and prompts. The book emphasizes the writing and publishing process while encouraging critical thinking about storytelling's future. It serves as both an uplifting and practical resource, empowering readers to shape their narratives and pursue their aspirations as writers and leaders.
This anthology celebrates twenty-five years of a nonprofit mentoring organization dedicated to empowering underserved youth through writing. It serves as both a writing companion and an inspirational guide, featuring exceptional essays that highlight the craft of writing. The collection not only showcases the voices of young writers but also emphasizes the transformative power of mentorship in helping them articulate their experiences and aspirations.
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the past twenty years. They're working part-time jobs to make ends meet, deciding to wear a hijab to school, sharing a first kiss, coming out to their parents, confronting violence and bullying, and immigrating to a new country while holding onto their heritage. Through it all, these young writers tackle issues of race, gender, poverty, sex, education, politics, family, and friendship. Together their narratives capture indelible snapshots of the past and lay bare hopes, insecurities, and wisdom for the future. Interwoven is advice from great women writers—Roxane Gay, Francine Prose, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Janet Mock, Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham, Mia Alvar, and Alice Walker—offering guidance to a young reader about where she's been and where she might go. Inspiring and informative, Girls Write Now belongs in every school, library and home, adding much-needed and long-overdue perspectives on what it is to be young in America.
The anthology showcases the compelling narratives of young women from Girls Write Now, highlighting their courage and creativity. These emerging writers share impactful stories that reflect their experiences and perspectives, contributing to a transformative literary movement. Their voices resonate with authenticity, aiming to inspire change and connect with readers on a profound level.
